20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Toby Keith

Toby Keith

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 15, 2003)
• Original Release Date: April 15, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mercury Nashville
• ASIN: B00008WI7G
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #146,696 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing New!, April 17, 2003

By	Steven L. Youngblood "syoungblood21" (Okinawa, JA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a huge Toby Keith fan, but what is the point of this CD? Every song except "A Womens Touch" can be found on Greatest Hits One. Plus on Greatest Hits One you get "Getcha Some" and "If a Man Answers". So don't be fooled by this new release. You are better off buying Greateast Hits Vol. One!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get Greatest Hits Vol. 1 not this set, August 2, 2003

By	James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Toby Keith emerged in 1993 with the autographical hit "Should've Been A Cowboy." The rodeo's loss is country music's gain, as Keith has been one of its most dependable hitmakers over the past decade. This collection captures his first six years of hitmaking when he was on the Mercury label. Back then, his specialty was relationship songs, be they humorous ("You Ain't Much Fun"), reflective ("We Were in Love"), or wishful ("Dream Walkin'"). Best of all is the duet with Sting on "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" which hits divorce from a male perspective dead-on.

This set adds only one extra hit from GREATEST HITS, VOL. 1.: the haunting "A Woman's Touch." Meanwhile, available on GREATEST HITS, VOL. 1 but NOT here are the good ol' boy anthem "Big Ol' Truck" as well as "Getcha Some," which offered a dopey delivery reminiscent of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song ("Black Gold, Texas Tea"). Unless "A Woman's Touch" is one of your favorite Toby Keith hits, I'd definitely go with the 14-track GREATEST HITS VOL. 1 over this 12-track collection.

By the way, to the person who wonders why "How Do You Like Me Now" isn't on this set: Keith released that on his current label DreamWorks after Mercury rejected it, causing him to leave that label. There is NO WAY Toby Keith would ever let Mercury put it out on their label now.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Toby is fabulous -- this album isn't., May 7, 2003

By	Deanna (Maryland) - See all my reviews

I love Toby Keith, but I really don't see the point in buying this collection. "Greatest Hits, Vol. 1" would be a much better choice. It contains two previously unreleased songs, plus the same tracklisting for this record, excluding "A Woman's Touch," which was not on Toby's greatest hits album, due to the fact that it peaked at #6 and never made it into the top 5. They should have at least included his 1999 hit, "How Do You Like Me Now?!" on this Millennium set.

I recommend Toby Keith's "Greatest Hits, Vol. 1" instead of this collection. It's a much better purchase!